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noun
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working or lucky .
- A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- She convinced the to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
- (slang) A cadaver, a dead person.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
verb
- To fail to pay money one owes, especially by departing hastily.
- Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
- (rfv-sense) To tip ungenerously.
- 1946, William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society, page 129
- : We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please them".
- 2007, Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before, page 154
- : Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
- (rfv-sense) To cheat someone.
- 1992, Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune, page 451
- : You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
adjective
- Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
- (context, figuratively) Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.
- Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.
- (colloquial) harsh, Harsh, severe.
- He was eventually caught, and given a fine.
- Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed excercise.
- My legs are after climbing that hill yesterday.
Etymology: stif, stÄf, from (proto, Germanic, stifaz), from (proto, Indo-European, stÄpos) ( compare (term, stipare)).
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